The United States will not develop new nuclear warheads or pursue new military missions or new capabilities for nuclear weapons. Statement by President Barack Obama on the Release of Nuclear Posture Review, April 06, 2010 I gather that the President is hoping this will be a big applause line in his speeches. Imagine how much …
Stockpile Numbers
by | 2010-05-03 | 7 Comments
5,113. That’s the number of active nuclear weapons in the US stockpile as of Sept. 30, 2009. The Defense Department has released aggregate stockpile numbers for 1962-2009, as well as annual warhead dismantlements from 1994-2009 in a fact sheet entitled, Increasing Transparency in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Stockpile. The fact sheet does not enumerate the …
38 North: Master Proliferator or Front Co?
by | 2010-05-03 | 2 Comments
Is North Korea a “master proliferator,” providing complete production facilities and extensive know-how for manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems to rogue regimes? Or is it a simple front company for passing along other country’s discarded, obsolete technology? If the latter is true, we might still have a few years left in …
Hoffman on the NPR
by | 2010-04-28 | 8 Comments
The other day after Tom Schelling spoke at one of our events, we stepped into the elevator together. David Hoffman, who works upstairs, was standing inside. I introduced them. “A Nobel Prize winner and a Pulitzer Prize winner,” I said. “This is a pretty quality elevator ride.” Hoffman demurred that a Nobel is much more …
